by Michael Prichard, Robert B. Parker
"Whose picture is on a one-hundred dollar bill?" I said. "Nelson Rockefeller." [Susan said] "Wrong." "David Rockefeller?" "Never mind." "Laurence Rockefeller?" "Where would you like to go to lunch?" "You shouldn't have shown me the money. I was going to settle for Ugi's steak and onion...
This is a re-read; I think I originally read Promised Land in the early 80s, when my father introduced me to Spenser. (He is a huge fan.) This is therefore an early one, published in 1976, and it really does have the 1970s all over it - not in any good or bad way, but it does very much read as a p...
I started reading Robert Crais’ Elvis Cole novels a few months back, and from the very onset I was hounded by reviews which complained Cole being a copy (albeit a poor one) of Robert Parker’s Spenser. The reviewers complained(or remarked) that the tongue-in-cheek dialogues coming out of Cole’s mouth...
Right after reading "The Adjacent" by Christopher Priest, I was in need of another fix of one of my favourite gumshoes... Spenser! Rationing the three series that's what it is (smile). What can I say that hasn't been said already? What I've always found fascinating is Parker's ability to write b...
Right after reading The Adjacent by Christopher Priest I was in need of another fix of one of my favourite gumshoes... Spenser!Rationing the three series that's what it is (smile).What can I say that hasn't been said already?What I've always found fascinating is Parker's ability to write by the scen...
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